Power and Stability in Nigeria: The Politics of Decolonization.

Cowan, L. Gray; Bretton, Henry L.

doi:10.2307/2090087

American Sociological Review

1963

DOI: 10.2307/2090087

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Power and Stability in Nigeria: The Politics of Decolonization.

L. Gray Cowan¹,

Henry L. Bretton²

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Confrontation Politics and Crisis Management: Nigerian University Students and Public Policy—a Social Commentary

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A social scientist once described Nigerian political behavior and culture in terms of a continual ability to move dangerously closest to the edge of disaster before pulling back just in time to avoid falling into the deep. Nigerians in high and low places have a passion for insisting on the absolute rightness of their positions and claims sometimes with little regard to the consequences for others as well as for themselves. Sometimes groups in the nation act as if they will rather be dead right than heed the political necessity of mutual accommodation and prudent compromise. The Daily Times Opinion of April 29, recalls Thomas Hobbes, the English philosopher (1588-1679) when it declared that “Nigerians are brutish and nasty. They are contentious and cantankerous. They are irreverent. And they are ungovernable. . . . [They] are an intensely political people, the more so today, when the promise of a return to civilian government has understandably led to the flexing of muscles by all manner of interest groups.” This is national high-wire politics at its best! But it is also dangerous politics at its worst. It reflects an ingrained political attitude about which more should be learned.

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